Hacking Switch slowly flashing yellow

[0t4kuu]

My switch has been successfully modded for a few weeks now, just now when i shutdown and tried to reboot to payload, it goes straight to blinking yellow slowly, what does it mean?

After a day of panicking, i finally got an sd apadater and the problem wasnt the SD card, ill have to wait a few days to open up the switch and check.

 

[Chaoticus]

My switch has been successfully modded for a few weeks now, just now when i shutdown and tried to reboot to payload, it goes straight to blinking yellow slowly, what does it mean?

Did you update your system by mistake today? The latest system update has been having the rounds.

 

[0t4kuu]

Did you update your system by mistake today? The latest system update has been having the rounds.

i dont think so, i was trying to setup a pokemon cheat for scarlet, after that i did 90dns to my internet since it changed, i noticed i forgot to download something and when i tried to reboot thats happening

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Did you update your system by mistake today? The latest system update has been having the rounds.

it has happened once just before i was installing the cheat for pokemon

 

[Chaoticus]

i dont think so, i was trying to setup a pokemon cheat for scarlet, after that i did 90dns to my internet since it changed, i noticed i forgot to download something and when i tried to reboot thats happening

Mod chipped or RCM + Jig?

 

[0t4kuu]

Mod chipped or RCM + Jig?

mod chipped switch oled with hwfly

 

[Chaoticus]

mod chipped switch oled with hwfly

can you boot it into stock in anyway? I'm not familiar with the MOD chips, so I don't know if you have such an option.

 

[0t4kuu]

can you boot it into stock in anyway? I'm not familiar with the MOD chips, so I don't know if you have such an option.

im not sure how to do that, the screen is black

 

[Chaoticus]

im not sure how to do that, the screen is black

Pushing power doesn't do anything?? can you use any bootloaders by chance?? I would try to see if you can hook it up to your PC and use a boot loader and see if you can get a sign of life that way.

 

[0t4kuu]

Pushing power doesn't do anything?? can you use any bootloaders by chance??

If i push the power it shuts off but then continues if i turn it back on, i dont think i can use bootloaders without the switch being on, thanks for trying to help btw.

 

[Trinda]

I've been looking at getting a hwfly chip for my oled, I just happened to have the LED diagnostics diagram open in another tab.

It says that slowly blinking yellow means it's training glitches, and it could take up to 15 minutes.

 

[Chaoticus]

If i push the power it shuts off but then continues if i turn it back on, i dont think i can use bootloaders without the switch being on, thanks for trying to help btw.

I know the frustrations
I don't know if you can use the bootloaders too but I would still give it a try. You might get a pleasant surprise.

 

[0t4kuu]

I've been looking at getting a hwfly chip for my oled, I just happened to have the LED diagnostics diagram open in another tab.

It says that slowly blinking yellow means it's training glitches, and it could take up to 15 minutes.

Yeah but im not sure if it happens to a switch thats already trained before, its been blinking for more than 15

 

[Trinda]

Yeah but im not sure if it happens to a switch thats already trained before, its been blinking for more than 15

There's another option for yellow blinking, a bit faster this time, that says
"50 glitches performed, modchip trained, next boots are fast"

 

[0t4kuu]

I know the frustrations
I don't know if you can use the bootloaders too but I would still give it a try. You might get a pleasant surprise.

Man, i feel like a complete noob now, how can i bootload without it being on? I apologize since im not the one that set up the switch so i have absolutely no idea how to use bootloader.

 

[Chaoticus]

Yeah but im not sure if it happens to a switch thats already trained before, its been blinking for more than 15

Try taking out the SD card and run a check disk on it. Maybe delete the Atmosphere folder and re-paste it back in. In either order. I'm sure it is probably due to the Switch update to 16.0.0. If nothing else works I'm betting it was the update somehow got through and updated your system.

Post automatically merged: Feb 22, 2023

Man, i feel like a complete noob now, how can i bootload without it being on? I apologize since im not the one that set up the switch so i have absolutely no idea how to use bootloader.

You use the bootloader while it's "off" (RCM mode if triggered)

 

[0t4kuu]

Try taking out the SD card and run a check disk on it. Maybe delete the Atmosphere folder and re-paste it back in. In either order. I'm sure it is probably due to the Switch update to 16.0.0. If nothing else works I'm betting it was the update somehow got through and updated your system.

Alright ill try that, if it had somehow updated that means ill have to update atmosphere the same way right? Tysm.

 

[Chaoticus]

Alright ill try that, if it had somehow updated that means ill have to update atmosphere the same way right? Tysm.

If it is the system updated itself your gonna have to wait a few days (hopefully) for the new Atmosphere to drop. When it does delete the Atmosphere folder on your SD Card and replace it with the new one. No prob helping btw. These guys here saved me a few weeks ago when I have to simply update my sig patches. I was getting half my games to load and the other half throwing errors at me. Once I did that it was easy street. Love my V1 switch!!

 

[swutch]

I had a similar problem on my oled. After some time, the connection on SP1 & SP2 become loose because of the heat of the SoC. But could also be the Dat0 or the A point.

 

[Chaoticus]

I had a similar problem on my oled. After some time, the connection on SP1 & SP2 become loose because of the heat of the SoC. But could also be the Dat0 or the A point.

Ouch!! :x

 

[0t4kuu]

I had a similar problem on my oled. After some time, the connection on SP1 & SP2 become loose because of the heat of the SoC. But could also be the Dat0 or the A point.

oof, theres a chance that its probably that too for me, ive been playing quite a few games on docking and its been heating my switch quite a bit, never rebooted up till now. But ill hope its the simpler one